Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Irony was all over Much Music on Saturday. A fourteen year old girl in 2000 would hardly blink at the sight of a Take That video. When those videos came out (1992-3), MM wouldn't have touched them with a ten foot pole. Back in those days, the catchy melodies of TT would have broken the monotony of the continuous loop of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots videos, and anyone who remembers those days knows that the slightest bit of cheeriness in music was commercial suicide akin to sticking by your boyfriend after he's arrested for firearms possession. Now, TT clones The Backstreet Boys are MM's flagship band. In fact, without BSB, the name of a certain MM VJ might forever have carried the suffix "the Temp". He fits right in with the Britney Spears generation today, but somehow I can't imagine him selling the world on the supposed merits of Mudhoney.